Tuesday, June 30, 2015

„My
niece went to visit Craco with her friend. The guide made them pay
€10 each. She noticed our old home in the town. ‘That’s where
my uncle lived!’ – She said. ‘So you’re Donato blacksmith’s
niece!’ – The guide smiled.” - Revealed my neighbour. T. used
to live in Craco, today a ghost town made a tourist attraction.

Orginal
settlement dates back to 8th century. Craco is is a hill
town. All old picturesques places of Basilicata were builid on the
hills (for defensive reasons in medieval times). In 1963 people
started leaving Craco because of landslides. After an earthquake in
1980, Craco was completely abandoned.

We
went there last Sunday. I noticed quite few tourists, many of them on
motorbikes. It was there where I saw beautiful blackberry tree. I
picked up sweet juicy fruit just like I did im my father’s orchard.
“You won’t go to the car like that, your hands are sticky!” -
Angelo complained, but I was glad anyway…

Friday, June 26, 2015

Her
life seems to be a mess. She’s talking openly about it but doesn’t
seem to be worried that much. She’s learned to cope on her own and
gets by quite well. My friend is sort of optimistic person. She won’t
complain and bad experiences don’t get her down. Despite
everything, she’s forward-looking and proactive in life.

My
friend is also focused on positive things; she likes new clothes and
having her hair done. Few weeks ago we were chatting in the
playground. “I’ve had too much of him! I don’t care what he’s
into; to me he can be even a fag!” Everyone smiled appreciatively,
after a while she looked at F.’s shoes.

“You
laced it nicely! I can’t do it like that.” – She said. F.
agreed to show her. My friend gave her first one, then another sport
shoe. We all observed F. lacing it. “Wow, that’s great! Now I
like it a lot!” - My friend said. For a good while she looked at
her feet, smiling. She seemed perfectly content.

Monday, June 22, 2015

According
to the article,
Otto Warburg, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology in 1931
discovered that root cause of cancer is too much acidity
in
the body. “Cancerous tissues are acidic, whereas healthy tissues
are alkaline”
– He
wrote.

What
can alter our PH balance? Food: one of the most acidic things to the
body is sugar (it’s PH is 2,1). Meat can increase the body’s acid
levels to dangerously high readings. Acid Food List: Junk &
Processed foods, all animal food, white wheat, rice… Healthy
Alkaline Programme is the latest celebrity favoured diet.

Victoria
Beckham, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Aniston are among the A-listers
who swear by it. Alkaline foods rise the the amount of oxygen that
your blood takes in. Uncooked vegetables and fruit make the body’s
internal environment less acidic. Another proof that Transurfing
really works! Vadim Zeland encourages to eating raw vegan food.

Friday, June 19, 2015

I
like listening to chatty F. The problem is that usually I cannot
properly enjoy his stories. F. likes speaking Pisticci dialect - I
find it hard to understand. My friends often spoke Italian to me, and
dialect
between them. I see phrases form dialect on Facebook and hear
children shouting it on the playground… Another „Southern
Italian” habit is giving people nicknames.

Let’s
say that someone from Pisticci had a grandfather with very big belly.
All the family – even the grandchildren – would be called
“Paunch” or something like that. I know someone called “Monkey”
– she doesn’t have another name for her neighbours. My friend A.
is not from Pisticci.

She
was born in another old town in the hill. Her father was called
“Vendulon” (big wind in dialect) since very young age. So was
called his wife and all children as well. Her friend worked in the
Uni; she met someone who might have known A. For a good while she
tried to explain who she is, but only the word: “Vendulon”
cleared everything.

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

I
published my short-stories collection “The trip” – Wrote
Katarzyna
Bezubik. – “I expected that my book will sell quickly. I was
wrong. In the first six months I sold only four copies”. My friend
Kasia Sikora says that you have to “direct marketing” himself.
She decided to distribuite debut novel on her blog.
She's sending the episodes of “Serial photograph” to the readers
of her blog.

Źródło: Internet

Promoting
your book before is published is a good idea. You have to be creative
if you’re not bestselling author. A debutant novelist should
contribute to Web Forums, start a blog (I have one), and write
articles. Getting book rewievs from magazines also helps a lot. Also
I’m “directing marketing” to help “Niedorzeczni”.

Apart
from mentioning the book on my blog, I decided to publish my
short-stories in a literary magazine. I felt great when Fajka's
Horse, The
Queen from the Cherry Orchard and The
Touch of the Invisibles were accepted in sZAFa quarterly. Hope it
will appeal to an audience! My short story „Blogger’s death”
took 30th outta 33 entries in writing contest on Facebook…

Friday, June 12, 2015

Last
time in Poland we went for a pizza with Angelo. He had a glass of
bier. “You don’t mind drinking when you have to drive?” – My
brother asked. “Why, it was only one small bottle!” – Angelo
told him. “It’s enough - police is mandating for that!” – My
brother insisted.

Źródło: internet

In
Italy police officers usually do not patrol the roads. Cameras are
set up to register a car’s speed. Traffic cops usually have only
speedometer. In Poland breathanalyzer is every policeman’s
must-have. “Sometimes police is doing ‘preventive campaign’
when it comes to drunk drivers.” – My brother revealed.

“They
would stop every car, the drivers are asked to take a breathanalyzer
test without even checking their documents!” Angelo was surprised –
it turned out that in Italy police is doing that usually in the
night, next to disco places with plenty of young people. Little
differences!

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

I
went for a walk at sunset. The weather was lovely and the bad smell
from the factory was gone. I looked at the blue sky, thinking –
what stops me from being happy? We get so wrapped up in our daily
problems that happiness isn’t even “on the list”. One is doing
his best to carry one with the life - and the load of the past.

Sometimes
the past hurts but we keep thinking about it. We hold our old grudges
and cannot let it go, making our bad past still alive. We strongly
believe that we can’t be happy just like that. I’ll be happy when
I’ll find a job or have a house - whatever but not now. We went at
the sea few days ago. I walked around in shallow water when it rised
up.

“I’ll
drown here!” – I panicked walking quickly towards waterside.
After a while I turned away and looked at “dangerous” waves. Warm
and lovely, they lashed peacefully in the sunlight. I was surrounded
by friendly sea. I’d read that Froud’s son told him: “Dad, I’m
not very happy!” “So be!” – Sigmund told him. Yeah, but the
problem is…

Friday, June 5, 2015

„Recently
you don’t really have anything to say. You just write only to
write!” – My husband said. I took his feedback seriously. I write
a post every 3-4 days – maybe it’s too often? Still writing a
good post doesn't take long. Let’s take Matera
2019 and Protozoa.
The thought and research took me at least one hour.

Both
post had some 60 views – it’s not much. On the other side simple
and funny blog post is more welcomed. An example - Vodka
Cola 258 views (maybe it it caught attention because of “anal
sex” words). It pays if I write about other writers/blogers and
link up (Dirty
Harriet 230 views, Velvet
d’Amour 2574). It’s always good to choose an interesting
topic.

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Back
in 2006 I went to England to work as a career. I was a bit ashamed of
that but I noticed quickly that English have a great respect for any
job. In Poland I used to know educated people who at the age of 30
were still supported by parents because they wouldn’t take
“rubbish” job. In England I saw the “kids” who at the age of
20 were living on their own and working

Southern
Italy is similar to Poland. Receiving financial support from the
parents is normal even if you’re fortysomething and have your own
family. My friend S. is originally from northern Italy. She used to
work in the factory. “It closed few years ago but several guys I
worked with are still doing nothing!”.

“In
the North if you’ve kids, your parents won’t let you to stay like
that. They will tell you to find a job!” – She told me. Do they?
I remember Paolo Cozza from Milan. He shot to fame some 10 years ago
in Poland. He revealed that when he was living with his parents, he
used to wake up at midday and his mom was making him coffee. Nothing
compares to mamma italiana!